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During her duties as a lady's companion, Emily meets her employer's nephew, Lord James Walderhurst. Accepting his marriage proposal, Emily finds solace in the company of Walderhurst's nephew and his glamorous wife, after Lord James leaves to rejoin his regiment. Emily, alone with the Osborns, increasingly comes under their control. She begins to fear for her life.
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As heiress of Rosings Park, Anne de Bourgh's health is of utmost importance to her mother, Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Thus, following a recent fire at Rosings Park, the young woman is spirited away to Brighton to take the cure. While there, Anne becomes acquainted with Mr. Owen Talbot, a charming man with whom Anne feels an immediate connection, notwithstanding their differing stations. However, despite their growing esteem for one another, Anne's...
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Snowglobe Duology volume 1
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"Enclosed under a vast dome, Snowglobe is the last place on Earth that's warm. Outside Snowglobe is a frozen wasteland, and every day, citizens face the icy world to get to their jobs at the power plant, where they produce the energy Snowglobe needs. Their only solace comes in the form of twenty-four-hour television programming streamed directly from the domed city. The residents of Snowglobe have everything: fame, fortune, and above all, safety from...
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The Ravensmoore chronicles volume 1
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Madeline Whittington finds herself attracted to Devlin Greyson, the Earl of Ravensmoore, the man she thinks is responsible for her father's death, but after she rescues an inmate from the local asylum, she discover secrets about the asylum that may explain mysteries concerning her family.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
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In 1887, the social-climbing Cranstons voyage from New York to London, where they hope to find a husband for their awkward older daughter, secretly accompanied by Helena and her mouse siblings, for whom the journey is both terrifying and wondrous as they meet an array of titled humans despite their best efforts at remaining hidden.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
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Horton, an upstanding kitchen boy in a castle in nineteenth-century England, becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding a series of thefts, which is also connected to the pursuit of a very eligible and wealthy young lady's affections.
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Set in contemporary Bombay, it tells the story of Sera Dubash, an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife and Bhima, the woman who works as a domestic servant in her home. Despite their class differences, the two women are bound by the bonds of gender and shared life experiences - both had marriages that started out with great romantic love and promise, but ended up as crushing disappointments. Ultimately, Sera Dubash faces a decision that will force her...
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Un fenómeno imparable: con más de 23 millones de ejemplares vendidos en 54 lenguas y un millón en castellano, Cometas en el cielo puede considerarse un clásico contemporáneo.
Sobre el telón de fondo de un Afganistán respetuoso de sus ricas tradiciones ancestrales, la vida en Kabul durante el invierno de 1975 se desarrolla con toda la intensidad, la pujanza y el colorido de una ciudad confiada en su futuro
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
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A collection of six stories from the universe of the Lunar Chronicles answer such questions as: How did Cinder first arrive in New Beijing? How did the brooding soldier Wolf transform from young man to killer? When did Princess Winter and the palace guard Jacin realize their destinies?
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When the downtrodden Noor rebel in the West, Wen, overhearing a plan to crush the Noor with powerful war machines, leaves the ghostly Bo, now a boy determined to transform himself into a living machine, and journeys into the war zone to warn the Noor--and her great love, Melik.
It's been a year since the collapse of the slaughterhouse where Wen worked as her father's medical assistant. Now she works in the clinic at the weapons factory and sneaks...
73) Jackpot
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IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
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"When Rico sells a jackpot-winning lotto ticket, she thinks maybe her luck will finally change, but only if she and her popular and wildly rich classmate, Zan can find the ticket holder who hasn't claimed the prize"--
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The Selection volume 3
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
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"As her Selection approaches its finish, America must decide where her heart truly lies--and Prince Maxon must pick one winner to wear the crown"--
76) An Uncommon Blue
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Colorblind volume 1
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Born with blue "fire" in his right hand marking him elite, Bruno cares only about being the most popular rugby player around, until one day a strange young boy tricks Bruno into changing the color of his fire.
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"1914, Fiji: 25-year-old police sergeant Akal Singh would rather be anywhere but this tropical paradise. After a promising start to his career in his native India and in Hong Kong, he got sent to work in Fiji as punishment for a professional mistake he's too embarrassed to talk about. Lonely and humiliated, Akal longs for the day he can finally solve a big case and win the inspector-general's favor, thereby redeeming himself and being permitted to...
78) Rebel Spy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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In 1776, fifteen-year-old Francisca escapes a dangerous life in the Bahamas by posing as a wealthy shipwreck victim, and soon finds herself a spy for George Washington in New York.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
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In this loose retelling of The Phantom of the Opera, set in a reimagined industrial Asia, a ghost becomes obsessed with sixteen-year-old Wen, the daughter of a staff doctor in a slaughterhouse, who falls in love with one of the Noor, a despised group of men, racially different, hired as cheap factory labor.
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